Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Connecticut

You can learn more about this original cultivar at the Online Plant Guide . Give it a rich fertile soil and periodic water during dry spells. A popular hummingbird and butterfly plant, few other plants can compete with it's profuse blooming habits.

Use Cloud Eight Verbena in the garden, landscape, or in container gardens. Cloud Eight is a semi-dwarf selection of Purole-Top Vervain with a compact and free flowering habit. The dainty nectar rich flowers are visited by bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

Give your Pentas a rich fertile soil and periodic water during dry spells. Great for hot sunny positions but will also tolerate part sun as well. An excellent choice for butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators, Pentas flower from spring to frost.

Butterfly Bush is considered invasive in some areas, please consult your local state offices before purchasing. Attracts scads of butterflies. Considered by many to be the best white butterfly bush.

Prairie Blazing Star is an easily grown native perennial that also makes an excellent cut flower, fresh or dried. When the Liatris are in flower, few plants can compete for the multitude of butterflies and other pollinators that they attract.

The Butterfly Series Pentas have been selected as a 2012 Louisiana Super Plant! Give it a rich fertile soil and periodic water during dry spells. Rich pink 3" flowers clusters. The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free...

Seedling grown. Produces small maroon to greenish flowers flowers in spring. It is reported to have a banana custard-like flavor, some say that fully ripe fruit of the Dwarf Pawpaw is equal to the Pawpaw, while others firmly disagree.

The flowers are produced on tall, narrow but sturdy stems and flowers are produced singly and in small clusters. Cutleaf Coneflower grows across much of the central and eastern US and is a spreading rhizomatous perennial that enjoys a moist soil.

Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results. Black and Blue Salvia, an Anise Sage, is a highly sought after nectar plant for hummingbirds, larger butterflies, and other pollinators.

A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of lilac colored, fragrant flowers. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing.

A tamer passionvine than many others but it certainly does not lack for vigor. The fuzzy foliage and stems are utilized by Gulf Fritillary, Zebra Longwings and other Heliconian butterfly caterpillars.

The sweetly scented foliage gives it its common name. A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine in average garden soils. These Rudbeckia's are good for attracting smaller butterflies and it seems that the...

Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead is clump forming perennial whose brilliant blue flowers are sure to attract pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and low flying hummingbirds. Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead can be enjoyed as a container plant or in the garden...

I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even most Lantana has to catch its breath from time to time during the heat of summer.

Savanna or Appalachian Mountainmint has nicely fragrant, medium green foliage and is considered to be one of the better Mountainmints for garden settings as it is not as prone to spreading by rhizomes.

Considered to be one of the most vigorous and disease resistant cultivars available. A hummingbird magnet! Earlier flowering in the Southeast and later flowering as you move northward.

A reliable, tough, and deservedly award winning clump forming perennial. Goldstrum Rudbeckia is an award winning selection of our native Rudbeckia fulgida which is native to much of the eastern and central United States.

The Blue Crown Passionflower may spread somewhat by rhizomes but it is generally much more tame than the Maypop. In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species, or...

Also consider a warm protected exposure such as on the eastern or southern side of a building or other protective structure. Provide a full sun location and a well drained soil for the best results.

Like other Passionvines, cross-pollination may be required or it may be that like Incense, it too is sterile, and is grown more for its flower production than fruit. Inspiration Passionvine, like most other root hardy tropicals, should be established...

Attracts Butterflies. Sharp or Slender Blazing Star is tolerant of moisture but is also drought tolerant once well-established. Multiple plants per pot. To learn more visit the Cajun Prairie Society or do a search for Gulf Coast prairies.

Hard late winter or early spring pruning promotes new growth and more flowers and helps to keep the plants more compact. The flowers attract a large variety of pollinators including bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other garden beneficials.

Dwarf Red Porterweed is the smallest and most compact Porterweed that we offer and it lends itself to use near the front of the border, in butterfly and hummingbirds gardens, as well as containers.

Evergreen in mild winter climates and it is known to tolerate temperatures as low as 20 o F with anecdotal reports that it is root hardy well into zone 8 and 7B. An endless display of huge purple tubular flowers that emerge from dark colored calyxes are...

Butterfly Bushes are easily grown, free flowering butterfly magnets and are moderately drought tolerant once well established. Miss Violet is another excellent introduction from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University.

Selected by the noted plant guru Herbert Kelly, Jr. A light pruning to remove spent flowers can bring flowers nearly until frost. A large deciduous, drought tolerant shrub with an upright to spreading habit.

Giant Alaska Shasta Daisies make excellent cut flowers. Choice one-year-old field-grown plants. They grow well in sun or light shade. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July.